Over the last 3 or 4 years I have been experimenting with a number of cast skulls including the Chocolate and Wax Skulls shown in the following few images.
Chocolate has been a major theme previous artworks I have created, that have traversed the fields of grandour next those of exploitation. What values do we hold in human kind or even that or animal kind when it comes to the use of those others if it comes to profitable gain.
Chocolate is a precious comodity and also a luxury that holds its roots way back in history, but in these chocolate skulls it's history is placed against a much more precious comodity that has not and is not always treated as such the human soul sold into slavery, exploited in trafficking and desposed of in countless genocides throughout history.
The chocolate in this case is used both to reflect that preciousness of the individual and the mass and to share that delicacy that all life holds, because chocolate too decays over time. It is all to easy to have the eyes of a person that only see what they wish to see and to ignore that that does not suit us. To see others as being of lesser importance to ourselves without taking the time to learn anything about those individuals.
The Wax Skulls explore issues of what it may mean to be artificial or even part artificial in a world where genetically altering ourselves to gain a better positions in life and to please others seems to be coming more common place, almost accepted as the norm? who is the god? who decides what is the accepted norm for you and me?
The following images reveal genetically altered Ceramic Skulls made of earthan ware clay, kiln fired, glazed and branded with their own serial numbers. Like the genetically manipulated 'Sharks 2018' in the final few images on the 'Shark Page' they are are hybrids of a subservient kind. Both the Shark and Skull hybrids are projects in progress, there numbers may increase and their settings will change over time. they will become like a wall of the lost.
